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Skriven 2006-12-31 22:41:45 av Patrick MM (13154.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Watching the Series for the First Time
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"Joseph DeMartino" <jdemarti@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
>
> I do agree that the repetition of the comments about the FX gets old,
> but I'm not sure that the critic is required to mention or even know
> that they were state of the art a few years ago in a field that makes
> huge advances from month to month.
>

Your King Kong example pretty much sums up my feelings about the first few 
episodes. I'm sure just the use of CG on a TV show was amazing, but at the 
beginning, it was taking away from my belief in the reality of the series, 
and I thought that was worth commenting on. But, the effects have been 
improving as the series goes on, and the stuff from season two while perhaps 
not state of the art certainly holds up and is believably real. I've seen 
much less believable stuff in some recent feature films, so I can imagine at 
the time it was absoultely amazing.

Plus, while I would criticize the aesthetic quality of the early effects, 
there was a dynamism to them that far exceeded something like Star Trek: 
Next Gen's static model shots. It just took a little time to refine them.

patrick
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